The impact of a loving marriage is more than you can imagine

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I pray every day for whomever my future wife is. I hope if I haven’t met her yet I will soon and if I have met her, that we grow in friendship and closeness.

Ultimately, our fulfillment comes from Christ but our faith is communal, and others help us towards heaven by putting our sins on the cross for us
 
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I work with mostly younger people and am astounded how fatalistic they’ve become toward marriage.

Powerful lies are being propagated among them with fewer and fewer mentors fighting back.

Thanks for the link.
 
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I work with mostly younger people and am astounded how fatalistic they’ve become toward marriage.

Powerful lies are being propagated among them with fewer and fewer mentors fighting back.
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Your post made me think about something. I loved I Love Lucy reruns as a child. I was recently watching them on Amazon Prime after my kids went to bed, and it hit me how horribly those shows portray marriage. The characters lie to their spouses, keep secrets, badmouth their spouses, manipulate each other, scheme against their spouses and then want to “get even” with them, say they’d be better off divorced…it’s honestly really sickening and has changed my perception of the show. Marriage is a sacred, holy institution created by God. It’s beyond terrible how society has come to view it as anything but.
 
I definitely relate to what you are saying. That kind of humor was so normal I didn’t think anything of it. I don’t know to what degree it colored my views of marriage, but now when I hear jokes like that they feel like they so casually stab at the heart of goodness and beauty.

This is not to say that small, weird, loving rivalries do not arise in a marriage, just that the jokes miss the mark.
 
It is satire, taking the normal things that arise in marriage and exaggerating them for comedic effect. Nothing sinister, just humor.
 
The one that got to me was the episode where Lucy wants Ricky to buy her an expensive dress in France. He refuses, saying he can’t afford it. So Lucy goes on a hunger strike and refuses to eat anything until Ricky buys her the dress. Any family counselor would mark that as emotional abuse/manipulation. Not to mention extreme childishness. I realize it’s not meant to be sinister and is supposed to be humorous, but I think that particular plot line went a little over the top.
 
I don’t think that I Love Lucy was supposed to be a show that portrayed a normal family.

She was referred to as the “Crazy Red Head” in many episodes, and part of Lucy’s personality was she was self centered and childish.

The Honeymooners was similar dynamic only Ralph was the self centered buffoon, and Alice had to ground him.

Ward and June Cleaver were more loving as s couple. They were good parents. Beaver was always worried about being “clobbered”, but Ward was always fair and calm.
 
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